The Mamluks in Egyptian and Syrian politics and society

CONTENTS......Page 6
Preface......Page 10
List of Abbreviations......Page 12
List of Illustrations......Page 14
List of Contributors......Page 16
Introduction......Page 20
PART ONE THE FORMATIVE STAGE OF THE MAMLUK SULTANATE......Page 24
CHAPTER ONE Doors that Open Meanings: Baybars’s Red Mosque at Safed......Page 26
CHAPTER TWO The Mongol Occupation of Damascus in 1300: A Study of Mamluk Loyalties......Page 44
PART TWO MAMLUK ARCHIVAL EVIDENCE......Page 66
CHAPTER THREE Glimpses of Provincial Mamluk Society from the Documents of the Haram al-Sharīf in Jerusalem......Page 68
CHAPTER FOUR The Recovery of Mamluk Chancery Documents in an Unsuspected Place......Page 82
PART THREE CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN THE MAMLUK ARMY......Page 100
CHAPTER FIVE The Sultan’s Laqab: A Sign of a New Order in Mamluk Factionalism?......Page 102
CHAPTER SIX Gunpowder and Firearms in the Mamluk Sultanate Reconsidered......Page 140
PART FOUR PROVINCIAL ADMINISTRATION IN MAMLUK PALESTINE......Page 164
CHAPTER SEVEN The Governance of Jerusalem under Qāytbāy......Page 166
CHAPTER EIGHT Founding a New Mamlaka: Some Remarks Concerning Safed and the Organization of the Region in the Mamluk period......Page 186
PART FIVE IBN TAYMIYYA AND MAMLUK SOCIETY......Page 212
CHAPTER NINE Ibn Taymiyya on Divorce Oaths......Page 214
PART SIX MAMLUK ECONOMY......Page 242
CHAPTER TEN The Circulation of Dirhams in the Bahri Period......Page 244
CHAPTER ELEVEN The muhtasibs of Cairo under the Mamluks: Toward an Understanding of an Islamic Institution......Page 268
CHAPTER TWELVE The Estate of al-Khuwand Fātima al-Khassbakiyya: Royal Spouse, Autonomous Investor......Page 300
PART SEVEN THE MAMLUKS IN SYRIA......Page 318
CHAPTER THIRTEEN Mamluks and their Households in Late Mamluk Damascus: A waqf Study......Page 320
CHAPTER FOURTEEN The Last Mamluk Household......Page 340
CHAPTER FIFTEEN Urban Residential Houses in Mamluk Syria: Forms, Characteristics and the Impact of Socio-cultural Forces......Page 362
PART EIGHT THE MAMLUKS IN OTTOMAN EGYPT......Page 380
CHAPTER SIXTEEN The Wealth of the Egyptian Emirs at the End of the Seventeenth Century......Page 382
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Problems of Abd al-Rahmān Katkhuda’s Leadership of the Qazdughli Faction......Page 396
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Mamluk “revivals” and Mamluk Nostalgia in Ottoman Egypt......Page 410
CHAPTER NINETEEN Bedouin and Mamluks in Egypt—Co-existence in a State of Duality......Page 430
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